Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001945Daniel Webster
by Thomas Ball
Inscriptions
Incised at back of drapers: "T Ball Sculpt/Boston Mass/1853/Patent assigned to / C W Nichols"
Provenance
Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago, by 1986; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1986.
Exhibition history
Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, Alumni Who Collect II: Sculpture from 1600 to the Present, Apr. 18–June 16, 1985, no cat.
Publications
Kirk Savage, “Molding Emancipation: John Quincy Adams Ward’s The Freedman and the Meaning of the Civil War,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, 1 (2001), 26–39, fig. 3.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Thomas Ball (American, 1819–1911) / Cast by James Tyler Ames (American, 1810–1883) / Chicopee, Massachusetts
- Date
- Modeled and cast 1853
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 76.2 × 30.4 × 27.9 cm (30 × 12 × 11 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
- Classification
- sculpture
- Place
- Chicopee
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 1986.1347
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